To describe the knowledge that
facilitated her new Big Idea, H P Blavatsky appropriated the word Theosophy.
This is a very old word meaning Divine Wisdom but in the modern era it is
associated by most people with H P Blavatsky’s teachings and those of her
followers.

Theosophy, as H P
Blavatsky promoted it, is drawn from Eastern Esoteric Knowledge that was
previously the preserve of an inner circle of highly developed Spiritual
Masters or Adepts. These guys didn’t exactly give it away and H P Blavatsky was
specially chosen to receive the knowledge.